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Canaries and Cage-Birds. 



demands nothing impossible. Rather let us emulate Mr. Brodrick, who has been at the work 

 thirty-five years, and whom it took more than twenty to breed out the objectionable spangle, with 

 the result we have put on record : " I bred as many as ninety young birds, with only two foul 

 feathers amongst them, and the large majority of them quite free from ticks." We do not say that 

 in doing this, something of the blackness will not be lost : it must be, and will ; but we do say, fix 

 the standard as high up as we can reach, and endeavour to maintain it, knowing the advantages 

 accruing therefrom, and not at the lowest possible point, with the certainty of manifold evils 

 following its adoption. 





